CORE YC Application

Summer 2023Active

CORE went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Manik Aggarwal
Harshith Mullapudi
Manoj K

What CORE does

CORE is your AI personal assistant that learns who you are, connects to your apps, and does the work before you ask. Open source. Self-hostable. Fully yours.

CORE's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CORE, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CORE

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your AI butler that understands and acts for you

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building CORE, an AI personal assistant that connects to the software tools people use every day, learns their preferences and workflows, and proactively takes care of tasks before they even need to ask. It's open source, self-hostable, and designed to be fully under your control. Our product targets knowledge workers and developers who want an assistant that actually knows them and integrates deeply with their apps.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Bengaluru, India, and the company will be based there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We all live and work in Bengaluru, which is a strong tech hub and where our community and resources are. Staying here keeps us focused and close-knit as a small team while we scale.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CORE YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from CORE's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like CORE would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.